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Street, now removed, which stood against the first house on the 

 left-hand side as you go up the hill. Proceeding southward, it 

 joined almost immediately the land attached to the Town 

 Rectory — now Mr. W. W. Fuzzey's Auction Rooms. For, 

 until the end of the eighteenth century, the whole of what is 

 now the Market Square was the Rector's garden, and an 

 archway and gate stood at its south-western end, where are 

 now the King's Weights. The wall from this point crossed 

 the present Vegetable Market in a southerly direction, and 

 met another gate which stood half way up Fountain Street, a 

 little to the westward of the flight of steps leading to " Les 

 Cottes," now satirically known as " Rosemary Lane." " Les 

 Cottes " means huts, and here the huts of the garrison of the 

 Tower of Beau Regard once stood. a) For at the top of Cornet 

 Street — Tower Hill, as it is still called — and on the spot where 

 St. Barnabas Church now 3tands, once stood the important 

 fortification of the Tour de Beauregard, and the town gate 

 which stood opposite to it is still marked by its barrier stone. 

 Adjoining this, at the top of Cornet Street stood, certainly 

 down to the days of Queen Elizabeth, a guard-house, which 

 was the property of the Town parish. This was surrounded 

 by a " Belle " or yard, described in a deed of sale of 1597 as 

 " au long et par le Nord du grand Chemin, et a la porte 

 d'entree de la Ville par devers le vouest." A flight of 

 stone steps, undoubtedly its southern boundary, ran between 

 Tower Hill and the bottom of Hauteville. They are now 

 hidden between locked doors. Here, on the outskirts of 

 the town, stood the stake and the rack, and, at the foot 

 of the hill, in the valley appropriately named " La Vallee 

 de Misere," ® tradition says that the many unfortunate victims 

 of the superstition of our ancestors were burned, alike for 

 heresy and for witchcraft. 



From the top of the hill on the opposite side, a line of 

 wall, or perhaps a trench, was carried down in the direction of 

 Cliff Street and " La Coupee Doublier " to the seashore, 

 where it was terminated by a Tower, which was still in exist- 

 ence in the eighteenth century, and this was probably the 

 original " Castle Vaudin " which gave its name to this 

 locality. From here the wall turned northward until it ended 

 at a spot just east of the Town Church where the barriere 



(1) There is an Indenture in the Record office, dated 1375, between the King 

 (Edward iii.) and William de Asthorp, Captain of the King's Castle of Cornet and 

 Tower of Beau Regard in Guernsey, relating to the safeguard of the Castle and 

 Tower by 30 " homines d'armes " and 30 "Balisters " (i.e., archers) in summer and 

 15 of each class in winter. 



(2) Perchage of Fief le Roi in St. Peter-Port. 1573 on pages 31-32 devoted to the 

 Land at the Bordage :— " Nicolas Careye en son gardin de la vallee de Myssayre. 

 The Carey house was the large granite house, now a bakery, facing Tower Hill steps. 



